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We’re not really the complaining type, but…
Many of us have had replies from the Independent Press Standards Organsiation along the following lines, after complaining about the Telegraph article, or regurgitated YFTB erroneous press release, of the week before last (see here and here): ‘We have conducted an assessment of your complaint against The Daily Telegraph and have decided that this…
Did you see this?
In case you missed it, here is the link to Mike Clarke’s blog on what Defra should do on Hen Harriers which appeared the other day. It’s pretty good really. A plan for Hen Harrier conservation is needed, but so is a plan to revitalise the uplands as a whole. A good step towards this…
A week today…the Bird Fair starts
I’m looking forward to the Bird Fair but after a couple of weekends of Game Fair and Hen Harrier Day (both of which were just brilliant – in rather different ways) I’m quite looking forward to this weekend being free – or, full of all the things that I have neglected because I’ve been a…
Another funny thing that happened yesterday – #inglorious12th
I did a couple of radio interviews yesterday morning, from the BBC Millbank studios in London – with BBC Radios Leeds and York (one of which was with Amanda Anderson of the Moorland Association). You can see how glamorous the studios are from the photo. And the evening before I’d been in the same Millbank…
A funny thing happened yesterday – the #inglorious12th
Usually, on the first day of the Red Grouse shooting season, there are lots of photos of men in tweed ‘oop on t’moors, wi’ guns’ practising a peculiarly British unsporting sport. But yesterday the papers were practically devoid of such nonsense and what coverage there was seemed to carry news of the fact that grouse…
Why driven grouse shooting is doomed
I’m quite often asked whether I really want a ban on driven grouse shooting – I do! And then I’m sometimes told that ‘It’ll never happen’ and I say ‘It will’. This is why. Let’s start with the very obvious, but rarely stated, fact that driven grouse shooting is not essential. We don’t need it….
Hen Harrier Day thunderclap
The message went out 5.7 million times just after 10am on Sunday, ‘We’re missing our hen harriers – we want them back!‘ This was too controversial a message to gather the support of Defra (the government department responsible for nature conservation and restoring the status of the Hen Harrier in England), Natural England (the English…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 – (3)
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Just some pictures…
Hen Harrier Day 2015 (2)
Chris Packham was an absolute star on Hen Harrier Eve and at the rally in the Goyt Valley. This is a man who cares passionately about wildlife and is using his public position to promote a better deal for wildlife. He is an inspiring man. I don’t agree with Chris about everything (which means that…